G. K. Chesterton

Quote link. Other quotes about: bad truth good: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Quote link.: "All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right: "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book soul: "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Quote link.: "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason: "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."
Quote link.: "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe: "I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect success: "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason man: "I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right: "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong."
Quote link.: "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world life: "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never people dead: "Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
Quote link.: "Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: cook: "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right think mother country: "My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober."
Quote link.: "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people love: "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small wise: "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man book: "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth person: "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth rich country: "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate: "The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right: "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain: "Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell."

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